KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

MrsPorridge

Oceanspirit what a great idea re the ready meals. Next week we will be decorating the sitting room - working during the day and decorating in the evenings - I am taking a leaf out of your book and will stock up on ready meals so minimum time cooking and maximum time decorating - thank you. I hate the upheaval of it all but will be worth it in the end.

Slinky

Am at our new house tonight, for the first time on my own. OH will come on Friday night but we don't wan't to lose a week of his pay. Had an aerials man come as we couldn't get any sort of signal on the many bits of coax in this house when we tested it the last time we were here. Apparently we're in a very poor signal area. I'm getting him to put connections into 4 rooms, we'll need a new aerial, boosters removal of the old one, etc etc. £600ish... flipping heck, we won't even get a full selection of digital for that either. Hey ho, there will be something for the tenants to watch, I bet they get satellite anyway.


Think I've worked out how to turn the boiler on for heating, we've only used the boiler for hot water properly in our past visits. It's cold here tonight, and a bit noisy with odd creaks and bangs with the wind.


The fire screen looks OK in our lounge, although you can still see the hideous fire behind it when you are close, but it's better than it was and will have to do. Don't like it, don't rent it.


I think I'm going to have to touch up the lounge ceiling again where we had the leak, the light wasn't good earlier (really green/grey clouds this afternoon), but I'll try and have a better look in the morning. I've decided to paint some radiators that look particularly scruffy now we've decorated the rest of the room. Liquid sander went on this evening, I'll wash and paint them tomorrow. Flooring coming Thursday so want the paint to dry well before then.


Official job tomorrow is start papering, fingers crossed I can get started, Electrician and a chap coming about the patio door will interrupt me.

maddiemay

Great idea regarding the ready meals ladies, as lovely and desirable as home cooked meals are, self preservation of health, wellbeing and sanity comes first in my book at times.

OH and I have looked out a crate full of electrical kibble and bicycle wheels for him to take to the re-cycling centre tomorrow, it is about 9 miles away and he will drop me at the Osteopath take the stuff and collect me on the way back. I have also filled a bag with clothes, books and bits and bobs today too, shattered, but happy now:D:D

silvasava

Slinky - when I rented out my mum's house some years ago the radiators needed sprucing up and I bought some spray from Wickes. It did a really good job and they looked like new.
Just a thought - do you have to spend that amount on aerial equipment when as you say they might get satellite anyway? It's a nice to have but not an essential.

Siebrie

I'm dekondoing at the moment (what's the opposite of kondoing, when you add stuff that is joyful?). My aunt and uncle are getting ready to move from a 5-bd house to a 1-bd apartment and every time I'm on the phone with my parents (who live close by and help them), they are offering the discards. This time: 6 dining room chairs and a leather swivel chair. We've decided to take them, because the cheap faux-leather dining room chairs we bought two years ago are already wearing thin (the padding is thinning and you can feel the wooden construction), and the wing back chair we have is too large for our living room, and getting grotty (and the girls use it for trampoline practice ).

Now I need to find a proper way of disposing of our dining room chairs and wing chair. Maybe we can send them to Africa, but I think they take up to much space for what they are worth. Probably we'll put them outside with a sign 'free'.

wort

Slinky- what is liquid sander? I like the sound of it!
A bit frustrating at the moment as I'm off work all week but can't do much due to resting the foot that's had injections.
So this morning I put dgsons playmobil on the bay of e. We had sorted it a while back , and even taken the photos. But I was waiting till closer to Xmas hoping they'll see better. When they've gone he'll only have a couple of items under the bed, and if I look may be able to jig the wardrobes so they fit in.
Lovely drying day today but have no washing to do!!
I'm feeling quite cold my feet are freezing despite being thoroughly wrapped!

hebwood

Charly - so sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself.


Maddie - take care. Glad to hear you are improving.


Hugs to all that need them.
H.

VJsmum

wort wrote: »

Slinky- what is liquid sander? I like the sound of it!

Is it the same as Easy Surface Primer? I used some of that when i decorated the kids' bedrooms - paint it on to the gloss and it dries 'tacky' so you can just gloss onto it.. Two and a half years on, it still looks fine..

catshark88

Bit of a big one for us today.

My Grandmother had a classical record collection and it had v interesting recordings. She died 30 odd years ago and Mum has kept hold of it, looking to give it to someone who will appreciate it. Her search was somewhat hampered by her v v rural location and lack of internet. No one wanted them, even free. Vinyl was passe and it's a collection for music nerds rather than more general music lovers.

Anyway, about a month ago, I found someone who was really excited by it and today I delivered them to him (well the first 77 of 150 odd, but the best stuff). A baton that meant a great deal to 2 people I loved, has been passed to someone who speaks the same language.

If I wasn't so stressed about a possible house purchase, I'd feel all warm and fluffy about it! :rotfl:

Slinky

Liquid Sander - this stuff


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polycell-LS500-500ml-Liquid-Sanding/


It's brilliant. Just brush it on with a circular motion. We tend to leave it overnight and wash off the following day before painting. You can't see a rough finish, but it has a chemical action which just keys the surface enough for gloss or similar to stick to. Was brilliant on the skirtings where we had taken up the carpet but the lethal gripperrods were still there. We'd have ripped ourselves to bits sanding by hand. We first used it where we had skirtings that had a fancy moulding in which would have been really hard to do by hand or a sander. It wouldn't be much use if you want to go back to bare wood, but if you're sanding to repaint it's excellent.


Today I painted the radiators, had 2 chaps round to quote for a potential new patio door, and wallpapered the long wall in the room of doom. Which is no longer the room of doom. I had budgeted 2 days to do it, but the paper was a really easy match and starting at 10.15 I was finished by 7pm. The electrician is finished. I need to hang some lampshades. The electrician couldn't see where the staining on the lounge ceiling had been so I'm inclined to leave it.


Not sure what I'm doing tomorrow - could be some gardening around a visit from another patio door person and the plumber.


Need to source some batteries, the doorbell has died. I have PP9, AAA and the big fat ones with me. Of course it takes the ones between AAA and the fat ones which I don't have. And it takes 3. Which means I'll end up throwing one away as I don't have anything else which takes these batteries.....